Dan Cadman thinks Tom Homan may have had Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in mind when he recently said political leaders who institute policies obligating law enforcement officers to release illegal immigrant criminals back into the community, as opposed to turning them over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, should face arrest and prosecution.

Illinois’ unpaid vendor debt continued its downward trickle during the week ending Jan. 24, with the state’s comptroller’s website pegging it at $8,666,126,495.36, marking at least the sixth straight week the overall amount has gradually diminished.

Dan Cadman's years of experience in the world of immigration law has left him with one, simple belief system. “If something bad can happen with illegal immigration, sooner or later it will,” Cadman, a fellow for the Center of Immigration Studies and a retired official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), recently told the Prairie State Wire.

It has been more than three months since long-time victims rights advocate Denise Rotheimer repeated during a public hearing accusations of sexual harassment against a high-ranking Illinois state senator and still she can't seem to be heard.

In Illinois we continue to find bad actors in our local government and elected and/or appointed boards that go out of their way to cover it up, justify it, defend it, and even reward their actions with massive payouts. Why?

Former Chicago White Sox great Jim Thome was elected to the MLB Hall of Fame in the first year he appeared on the ballot, garnering 89.8 percent of votes from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.

The city of Chicago, Cook County and the state of Illinois were three of 23 jurisdictions nationwide that were put on notice this week by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for their so-called sanctuary policies regarding immigrants here illegally.

Six Illinois Republican lawmakers have moved to block a bill Gov. Bruce Rauner signed in August exempting illegal immigrants from being deported if local authorities apprehend them on unrelated matters.